Trumanby David McCulloughWinner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories,
filled with vivid characters — Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson —
and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David
McCullough not only captures the man — a more complex, informed, and determined
man than ever before imagined — but also the turbulent times in which he
rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve
as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's
story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful
Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign
of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at
Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly
discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own
family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply
moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps
the most courageous president in our history. The PublisherPaperback - 1117 pages Reprint edition (June 1993)Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0671869205

Drawing
the Line : The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949by Carolyn Eisenberg
In this fresh and challenging study of the origins of the Cold War,
Professor Eisenberg traces the American role in dividing post-war Germany.
Drawing upon original documentary sources, she explores how U.S. policy-makers
chose partition and mobilized reluctant West Europeans behind that approach.
The book casts new light on the Berlin blockade, demonstrating that the
United States rejected United Nations mediation and relied on its nuclear
monopoly as the means of protecting its German agenda. The PublisherPaperback - 350 pages Reprint edition (April )Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521627176

Berlin in the Balance, 1945-1949 : The Blockade, the Airlift, the
First Major Battle of the Cold Warby Thomas Parrish
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Constructed Peace : The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963(Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by Marc Trachtenberg
"A powerful, original, and engaging work. Marc Trachtenberg has woven
together an enormous array of evidence and information, much of it only
recently available to researchers, into a compelling interpretation of
an extremely important historical period. Trachtenberg's book is broad
as well as deep, and its implications for our understanding of the dynamics
of the Cold War extend well beyond the period it examines."--Aaron L. Friedberg,
Princeton University
Paperback - 448 pages (April )Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691002738

Prompt and Utter Destruction : President Truman and the Use of Atomic
Bombs Against Japanby J. Samuel Walker
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The Truman Presidency(Woodrow Wilson Center Series)
Michael J. Lacey (Editor)
Written by leading authorities in the fields of the contemporary social,
political, and diplomatic history of the United States, the essays in this
volume provide a wide-ranging overview of the intentions, achievements,
and failures of the Truman administration. Divided into sections on domestic
politics and issues, and foreign policy and national defense, the volume
sets forth an authoritative appraisal of some of the major events and problems
of the time in light of recent scholarship. The essays make clear the overriding
importance of the wartime experience for the Truman era and demonstrate
the influence of the era on today's political economy in both its national
and international aspects. The PublisherPaperback Reprint edition (July 1991)Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521407737Out of Print - Try Used
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